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sovay would ask me:
1. Which myth would most like to find yourself inside?
What, and have actual contact with gods? That's dangerous, you know.
2. What is the earliest favorite character you can remember?
Grover from The Monster at the End of This Book, the first book I read All By Myself. I suspect I earlier imprinted on Big Bird from the Sesame Street show, but I have only circumstantial evidence for this. Curiously, I was not all that into Grover as a muppet -- but the iteration of rope > boards > wall > persuasion makes for a classic sympathetic protagonist. "Did you know you are very strong?"
3. What adjective do you wish no one would use anymore? (In any language you know.)
Pecksniffian.
4. What story do you retell the most?
Eros and Psyche/Beauty and the Beast -- I don't have a good name for the platonic form of the story those are instances of. One the one hand, if you squint, this can be seen as a specific iteration of "be careful what you wish for," which I return to a LOT. On the other, sometimes I retell only the search after the catastrophe, which strays into Orpheus and Euridice territory.
5. Would you write a poem on the transit of Venus?
This requires three answers.
a.
Would I, could I, in a bus?
Would I, could I, without fuss?
Would I write one on a plane?
Would I write one with refrain?
Would I write one up on Mars?
Would I write one from the stars?
Would I write it far from home?
Would I write a transit poem?
b. Depends on the circumstance. To ransom myself from a headhunter's axe, sure. To buy off an IRS agent hot on the trail of my ponzoi scheme, not likely. To drill through the concrete prison wall and bust us out of here, no way. To prove my affections and so win the heart of my beloved, abso-positive-lutely.
c.
one tiny black dot
rare, significant of size
transit of Venus
Comment if you want five questions of your own.
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While we're on the subject of myself, I've always considered myself as not a lucid dreamer. I cannot control what happens in dreams -- I can only, when things get too scary or move into territory I Do Not Want To Explore Right Now Thanks, I can say, "Screw this, I'm outa here," and wake myself up. Sometimes it's obvious what's going on, other times I'll have no clue provoked the bugging out until I examine of the dream imagery closely. (And yes, I've sometimes woken myself up through a couple layers of dreaming, when I first dream that I've woken up.)
A few nights ago, however, I actually changed something in the dream. There was a precipice with a chain-link fence with a gap in it, where two poles didn't quite meet. When I noticed this, I frantically said, "No, not like that -- a small child could squeeze through!" and shifted it to be a single pole. This satisfied me, because while I Did Not Like the dropoff at least it was now safe, and the dream went on from there in the usual random way.
I didn't realize the significance of doing this till I was in the shower.
---L.
sovay would ask me:1. Which myth would most like to find yourself inside?
What, and have actual contact with gods? That's dangerous, you know.
2. What is the earliest favorite character you can remember?
Grover from The Monster at the End of This Book, the first book I read All By Myself. I suspect I earlier imprinted on Big Bird from the Sesame Street show, but I have only circumstantial evidence for this. Curiously, I was not all that into Grover as a muppet -- but the iteration of rope > boards > wall > persuasion makes for a classic sympathetic protagonist. "Did you know you are very strong?"
3. What adjective do you wish no one would use anymore? (In any language you know.)
Pecksniffian.
4. What story do you retell the most?
Eros and Psyche/Beauty and the Beast -- I don't have a good name for the platonic form of the story those are instances of. One the one hand, if you squint, this can be seen as a specific iteration of "be careful what you wish for," which I return to a LOT. On the other, sometimes I retell only the search after the catastrophe, which strays into Orpheus and Euridice territory.
5. Would you write a poem on the transit of Venus?
This requires three answers.
a.
Would I, could I, in a bus?
Would I, could I, without fuss?
Would I write one on a plane?
Would I write one with refrain?
Would I write one up on Mars?
Would I write one from the stars?
Would I write it far from home?
Would I write a transit poem?
b. Depends on the circumstance. To ransom myself from a headhunter's axe, sure. To buy off an IRS agent hot on the trail of my ponzoi scheme, not likely. To drill through the concrete prison wall and bust us out of here, no way. To prove my affections and so win the heart of my beloved, abso-positive-lutely.
c.
one tiny black dot
rare, significant of size
transit of Venus
Comment if you want five questions of your own.
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While we're on the subject of myself, I've always considered myself as not a lucid dreamer. I cannot control what happens in dreams -- I can only, when things get too scary or move into territory I Do Not Want To Explore Right Now Thanks, I can say, "Screw this, I'm outa here," and wake myself up. Sometimes it's obvious what's going on, other times I'll have no clue provoked the bugging out until I examine of the dream imagery closely. (And yes, I've sometimes woken myself up through a couple layers of dreaming, when I first dream that I've woken up.)
A few nights ago, however, I actually changed something in the dream. There was a precipice with a chain-link fence with a gap in it, where two poles didn't quite meet. When I noticed this, I frantically said, "No, not like that -- a small child could squeeze through!" and shifted it to be a single pole. This satisfied me, because while I Did Not Like the dropoff at least it was now safe, and the dream went on from there in the usual random way.
I didn't realize the significance of doing this till I was in the shower.
---L.